To think it's very wrong to put the water in the cup first and then add the bag

[Pinesinthedunes]

...when making a cup of tea.

Am I being unreasonable?

Trivial, I know, but wondered if there was a consensus, and maybe I'm on the wrong side of it.

If you are serious about your tea, you need one of these.

It boils the water to the temperature you choose and then lowers the leaf tea into the freshly boiled water for the length of time you specify, with the option to dunk the tea leaves in and out of the water during brewing time or leaving them in the water for the whole brew time.

It then removes the basket with the tea leaves from the tea so it doesn’t stew and can keep the tea warm for an hour.

https://www.sageappliances.com/uk/en/products/tea/btm800.html

Sounds like me
I always ask for the tea bag to be left out if having tea out. Otherwise the server bungs it in and by the time they get round to passing the pot/mug over to me it is too well stewed.

That’s all kinds of wrong.

Making it in the mug is every shade of wrong to start with.

but in extremis, when forced to make mug tea, of course it’s bag in first.

Be wary of the water first monster. It’s surely the first sign of a psychopath.

Yes

This is the worst thing I have ever read in all my years on Mumsnet and needs a Trigger Warning.

😂

Yes! I opened this thread to post this! We teapot users are a dying breed, though.

Here's Dame Maggie Smith's take on it:

I always use a teapot and Miles' loose leaf tea, which suits our hard water very well. I buy it in 1kg bags - I drink rather a lot of tea. 😁

My daughter's housemate has knitted a beautiful tea cosy for their pot. If I could knit, I'd do the same. As it is, we manage with a bought one.

It's never boiling when you get it. It always just about warm. They insist on doing this everywhere in Europe, which is odd because usually the coffee is good, but they can never manage a good cup of tea.

Who is 'they'? I've never had a warm cup of tea anywhere, it's always hot.

Good for you.

I've had the tepid water and with a tea bag on the side everywhere. Cafes, restaurants, hotels, friends' places.

And it's not a cup of tea. It's a cup of water accompanied by a tea bag.

LTB. Red flags all over this.

Depends on the type of tea. Certain teas do get scorched if you put them in first and pour boiling water over them.

Had a man from Quooker out today to look at our tap and he used to work for Twinings and said this was the way to do it, then demonstrated!

YANBU. This is serial killer behaviour

In America I’ve more than once been given a pot of hot water, with a teabag on the side.
I no longer bother ordering tea across the pond.

>>>Put tin hat on <<<<

I think tea is horrible, I haven't drank it since I was a child BUT even I know that some of the above methods* *mentioned are the work of the devil .

Make 2 cups and see the scum on the top! Mind this might be because of the quooker

Yes, tea made in the cup is scummy. You can see it inside the cup when you’ve drunk it. Scummy. I hate it. If it’s going to be tea made in the mug, I’ll have coffee thanks.

I used to covet one of these but decided that the risk of it becoming an expensive dust gatherer and worktop space stealer was too high. I'm also very attached to the part our stove top whistling kettle has in the whole teamaking process and didn't want to give that up!

If you warm the cup, put the bag in and then put absolutely boiling water in, you get the best cuppa, because the bag sinks slowly and doesn't contain a big bubble of air, making it float.